Abstract This manuscript describes a course designed for incoming scholars as an introduction to liberal arts education.

Abstract

This manuscript describes a course designed for incoming scholars as an introduction to liberal arts education, which moves a close relationship between ethics and aesthetics, between "the good" and "the beautiful." pupils are exposed to different Western philosophical definitions of the dutiful life, as well as to different definitions of beauty. Underlying is the course's working metaphor of life as work of art: life as a work of self-creation. In weekly conversations with senior citizens, close examiners produce an autobiography informed by means of readings, and assist their conversation partners in producing a narrative of their confess life. Unlikely conversation partners of